Bug#251953: gnome-settings-daemon not in default PATH

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le lun, 31/05/2004 =E0 18:49 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon a =E9crit :

>  "slightly disagree" or whatever.  I'm stating that this bug affects the
>  behaviour of unrelated applications

If these apps have a broken design it's not the control-center fault
again.=20

After ready some bug reports on bugzilla the reason of the move seems to
be "settings-daemon is not an user program and has nothing to do
in /usr/bin" ... and that makes sense, a standard gnome user doesn't
need to know what the settings-daemon is and to have it in his path. If
you want to use it just hit the entire path.


>  default values are "good defaults".  Irrespective of how good these
>  defaults are, these _are_ _not_ the values I have set.

We can't support all the bad hacks from users. If you use gnome it "just
work". It's the same with the new xfce.


>  gnome-settings-daemon.  What I'm reporting is that it should not just
>  disappear and I have no intention of chasing this thing around.  If you
>  give me a portable and change-resilient way of finding _where_ this
>  application is to be found I'll gladly agree to close to the bug.  I
>  see none right now.

The settings-daemon has been moved out of the path because it's not an
user apps, it's in /usr/lib/control-center/ and will stay here.


>  Yes, there is.  An upgrade will break people's systems without a good
>  technical reason for doing so.

It will break some bad hacks. As said before we can't support all user
hacks. It'll not break any gnome session ...


>  You don't have to wait for upstream to understand that the made a
>  mistake.  Just put a symlink in the package in the meanwhile.  If
>  upstream has a good reason for this change go and find which one it is.

It's not an user app, no reason to pollute the path with it.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher